Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
API ID: qwen/qwen-plus-2025-07-28
About Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Qwen Plus is Alibaba's balanced cloud-hosted model, offering strong capability at moderate pricing. The model delivers excellent performance on reasoning, coding, and multilingual tasks while being more cost-effective than Qwen Max. Qwen Plus features a substantial context window and supports function calling for building AI applications. It excels at general conversation, content generation, and business automation tasks. The model is optimized for production deployments requiring reliable performance without premium pricing. For organizations seeking capable AI through Alibaba's cloud with favorable economics, Qwen Plus provides excellent value. It's the recommended choice for most production use cases.
Model Specifications
Best For
- Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
- Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
- Conversations, content writing, general assistance
Consider Alternatives For
- Image understanding (needs vision capability)
- Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)
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Alibaba Qwen Model Lineup
Compare all models from Alibaba Qwen to find the best fit
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Capabilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) Current | Free | Free | 1.0M | chat reasoning tool_use code |
| Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct | Free | Free | 33k | chat vision tool_use |
| Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B | Free | Free | 8k | chat code |
| Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B | Free | Free | 8k | chat code |
| Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct | Free | Free | 64k | chat vision code |
| Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct | Free | Free | 64k | chat vision code |
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